Requests

I’ve got requests already for grep and awk info. I’m working on the grep stuff, should be out soon, honest. Apparently this shortage of round tuits should not last long. I’ll see what I can do about awk; I know about one thing with awk, something along the lines of df| awk '{ print $5,$1,$6 }'

So; post comments here, if there’s a particular *nix (particularly shell-based) hint or tip you would like to see.

WordPress doesn’t seem to have any kind of facility for voting, so we’ll just start with a simple “tell me what you want” system. If people want stuff, I’ll try to post it (if I know it!)

Recently a co-worker stated that the latest bash release supports shell libraries. I grabbed the latest version and saw no mention of shell libraries. Do you know anything about them? I assume Bash is using something similar to Perl like @INC.

SHLIB – no, he meant that there is *some standard location* in a version of Bash. I will dig around and see if I can find it. In reality, if one just set a variable in the system wide profile like SHLIB=foo/ then you have accomplished the same thing :)